Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Kyle Hill 'The Microscopic Reason Chernobyl is Still Dangerous”

[suryamgangwal]

He did actually mention decay heat in the pinned commentof his video

[swokatsamsiyu]

Another very well done video. Excellent! And hot off the press too. Kyle's video is only a day old.
Your phrase; "just because of how much they broke their reactor" when referring to the Chernobyl accident, kind of had me grinning despite the severity of the situation. They really did some terrible things to that RBMK, even when they didn't mean to. Of all the shortcomings and flaws it had, not having a containment building would be the most idiotic. You simply do not put a reactor out into the world in little more than its bare fuel rods, especially when you as a designer also made an effort to give it every undesirable characteristic in the Physics book that you could find. But that was the Soviet Union for you, I guess.

[gabeisawesome]

I love how you do reaction content in such an ethical/fair way. If that doesnt immediately make sense, i mean that over half the video is sharing your thoughts and reaction and you only play the clips needed to provide context for your own thoughts. It makes the original video "required reading" for the viewer. Reaction content should ideally result in mutual benefit for the original video producer, regardless of the relative size of the channels involved. Good to see you going out of our way to do it right. Much love and keep doing what you're doing ✌️

[lilgg]

Amazing video. I always learn something new with every one of your reactions. Thank you for putting out such great content so frequently.

[Afro__Joe]

I can't get enough of these videos, for some reason, it's great to get opinions from experts in the field. Could you do a video on China's new reactor, what 4th generation reactors translates to in lay persons' terms, and/or what makes this gas reactor different from earlier designs?

[tfrowlett]

I remember about a decade or so before Fukushima, there was also the Tokaimura accident in 1999, when they were purifying uranium oxide, the most they could safely do at a time was seven pounds to prevent a criticality event. The workers ignored procedures to save time and they added over 40 pounds of fuel to their container, causing a criticality incident. The dose received by the public varied from 1.5 to 4.7 rems. The only deaths were from two of the three workers, one within three months, the other the following year.

[mcfansrandomvids]

I just want to point out this Kyle hill video is less than 24 hours old, I was not expecting there to be a reaction to it already ❤

[jaredmulconry]

It's definitely worth watching the original video for this one. Not shown in this reaction is part of Kyle Hill's time in Ukraine and the process involved in detecting and isolating hot particles still in the environment. It's really interesting stuff.

[shadowsciencesssf]

I love watching your videos on kyle hill, one video of his that I have seen is the "Homer Simpson is the worst technician ever" I'd love to see that video, your content is great!

[megsley]

i really appreciate the fact you explain things in such a neutral way - i know he's not really downplaying things, but sometimes i get the feeling from kyle's videos that he maybe has a little contempt for people who are fearful of nuclear power.

[dubz]

Bro, keep going. I’ll see you at 100k with that pretty silver plaque in the background!

[augiegirl]

27:58 I had heard of 3 Mile Island for years, but it was only a couple of years ago that I found out its location near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. After I learned this, I asked my mom if my maternal grandma’s brother, who lived in Port Carbon (approximately 40 miles NE of Harrisburg) for the majority of his adult life, had been affected by it. She said the fallout didn't reach that far. BTW, he was 100 when he died in 2016.

[ultrametric]

It is absolutely certain that some radiation is helpful to life, insofar as it is the primary factor leading to favorable mutation. And in any case, common sense says we have evolved in a bath of cosmic rays and trace radionuclides in the crust, which is the definition of natural.

[mikeholmstrom]

7:13 reminds me in one book about Chernobyl, a Soviet Bureaucrat was demand a repair & restart timeline for the failed reactor.

Though there was a small meltdown in Chernobyl Unit 1 in 1980, due to a faulty cooling valve remaining closed following maintenance. They had to permanently block off those damaged fuel channels. They restarted that reactor 8 months later.

[djrbaker]

Mr. Folse would it be possible to start a new series with something like "rate my nuclear plant"? 😂
I live in the Brazilian Amazon, very very far from our only nuclear plants but I always wonder how they compare to modern plants since they are so old

[wolphin]

The 7-point scale needs to be expanded to a 10 point scale, so they can differentiate the scale of the issues.

[moomk]

I love your channel dude, especially the sam o nella reactions. Really awesome stuff!

[SkittleKicksPlays]

We can blame the movie The China Syndrome for instilling all this fear about nuclear plants. Jane Fonda made it her mission to demonize it after Three Mile Island occurred. It didn't help Big Brother demonized nuclear power as well. Even though they knew there wasn't the large release (or as bad) of radioactive material as they were telling the nation there was. Another film we could blame was The Swarm by the Master of Disaster director Irwin Allen, because it has the depiction of a nuclear plant going critical (and exploding via a meltdown) when the swarm of bees attacks plant workers.

The result is the anti nuclear power groups that keep this crap alive, and keep spreading it to their kids (the incompetent and ignorant mind is the most dangerous). Plus they won't admit there are far greater safety measures in place (as you wisely point out), and the huge benefits to the sustainability (and independence) we could have. Nope, it's that big scary mushroom cloud they think would happen.

[thesuperdak]

Is there going to be a second part to this reaction?

[ThatJay]

"continuous recirculation" - in nucleares, i essentially just shut down the reactor with continuous recirculation through the primary loop with the control rods fully inserted